forked from Keelrleek/SoulStream
The source chips are gone — the rail already tells that story — and with them the measured slot, its effects, and the bar's only container query. The now-playing cluster hugs the song name with no cap, giving ground only once the scrubber hits its 260px floor; the artist's 55% ceiling applies only when an album sits beside it, so a lone loading artist no longer renders as two letters in a twelve-pixel box. The waveform is rebuilt on honesty. WAVE_BUCKETS rises 400 → 2000 (~128ms per bucket — at 400, every display bar was ~2s of audio averaged twice), and one shared shaping in waveshape.js replaces both lanes' gain-into-clamp rule, which flat-topped 53.8% of the bars on a real decode and was propped up by per-bar noise in the rail — deleted; the lane shows the record, not a hash of the bar index. Bars fold with a mean+peak blend and stretch across the track's own p05–p97, so a loud master stops pinning to the ceiling and a quiet one stops vanishing. The playbar copies the rail's fade verbatim: whole bars blend accent→grey with cuts landing in the 4px gap, and the one bar under the playhead crossfades toward whatever its neighbours are — the wash while hovering, the muted grey otherwise. The redraw gate watches that blend instead of a 0.75px playhead move, so both lanes now step on every position event. Loading is drawn, not implied: the solid fallback bar is gone and the lane is always the bars, always seekable. Empty, it rests as the rail's dots; a swell crosses them while a waveform is computed (2s sweep, 0.5s rest); a streaming track's bars stand up left→right on a 40ms cadence, each rising over 2s. The rise frontier is the waveform's OWN coverage, reported by stream_waveform beside the peaks — the old contract zero-padded partial peaks to full length and let the UI fold them against a fresher byte count, which stretched the whole shape between refreshes. Where the bars end is how much of the track has actually loaded; cached and local tracks arrive at coverage 1 and pop in complete. The first partial is also requested eagerly (fresh refresh clock per track, 700ms retries until peaks exist), closing most of the audio-before-lane gap.